Weight Management Support

NWCED supports the Stockport NHS Weight Management Team and its clients who have been referred by their GP for help with obesity and related conditions. NWCED is happy to work with other weight management teams/GP surgeries/Primary Care Trusts on developing and carrying out similar programmes.

Tackling the emotional side to your eating
Understanding yourself better
Dealing with the past, creating a better future
Referral process

Tackling the emotional side to your eating

If you struggle with overeating and overweight you may be aware that your relationship with food is affected by emotional, social or family stressors. Factors such as depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, or body image dissatisfaction may also be present, and these issues can interfere with your efforts to stick to a long-term weight loss plan. Counselling offers effective techniques for helping tackle these factors, which in turn makes the possibility of progress towards a healthier lifestyle feel more realistic and attainable. Counselling at Oakwood House is "integrative" which means your counsellor is trained in the dominant theories of talk therapy such as cognitive behavioural therapy, solution-focussed therapy and interpersonal therapy, and will tailor the way she works to suit your needs.

Understanding yourself better

Alternatively you might be interested in understanding your eating better and discovering whether there is an emotional or interpersonal component hindering your efforts to change, and if so, what you can do to cope with these stressors in new and more effective ways.

Dealing with the past, creating a better future

Some people who have difficulties with overweight may have histories of adverse experiences in childhood or adolescence which may have disturbed their body image or eating behaviour at an early age. In this case counselling can offer a safe place to explore the effects of these experiences and move further into healing from them.

Referral process

Counselling is available by referral only. Please speak with your Stockport Weight Management Team Coordinator, who will arrange for a referral to be sent to us. You will be contacted within one week of our receipt of your referral.